* 1949 – Patrick Hernandez, French singer and songwriter

* 1949 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

* 1874 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – Phil Garner, American baseball manager

* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal

* 1949 – Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Alabama )

* 1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler ( d. 1993 )

* 1949 – Alan Campbell, Irish pastor

* 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, American bishop

* 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American author

* 1949 – Ted Simmons, American baseball player

* 1949 – Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1949 – Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker

* 1949 – Jim Brunzell, American wrestler

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist

* 1949 – Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian astronaut

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan

* 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

* 1949 Murder at the Vicarage ( dramatised by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy )

In 1949, Hilda Terry wrote a letter challenging that rule, and after more than six months of debates and votes, three women were finally admitted for membership in 1950 — Terry, Edwina Dumm and gag cartoonist Barbara Shermund.

Hold Back the Dawn was adapted as a radio play on the November 10, 1941 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward, again on the February 8, 1943 episode of The Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Susan Hayward, the July 31, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater starring Olivia de Havilland and Jean Pierre Aumont, the May 31, 1948 episode of Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, the May 14, 1949 episode of Screen Director's Playhouse with Boyer and Vanessa Brown, the May 4, 1950 episode of Screen Guild Theater with de Havilland and Boyer and the June 15, 1952 Screen Guild Theater with Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Pierre Aumont.

* Barbara Park ( born 1949 ), author of children's literature best known for her series of books starring the character Junie B. Jones.

* Barbara Corcoran ( born 1949 ), real estate agent and investor.

Over the next 13 years George and Barbara Bush had six children: George W. Bush ( born July 6, 1946 ), Pauline Robinson Bush ( December 20, 1949 – October 11, 1953, died of leukemia ), John Ellis " Jeb " Bush ( born February 11, 1953 ), Neil Mallon Bush ( born January 22, 1955 ), Marvin Pierce Bush ( born October 22, 1956 ), and Dorothy Bush Koch ( born August 18, 1959 ).

Her mother Barbara Joy, née Rollinson, was a professional dancer whom he fell in love with after seeing her on stage in Weston-super-Mare with Flanagan and Allen, and married in 1949.

The availability of a portion of the land used as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara until 1946 on another seaside mesa in Goleta, which the Regents could acquire for free from the federal government, led to that site becoming the Santa Barbara campus in 1949.

The Stillwater Free Library was established in 1949 by Barbara Alexik and Elizabeth Beiter in the building formerly home to the St. John's Episcopal Church.

* Barbara Blida ( 1949 – 2007 ), Polish politician

This series of 10 scenes, or " blocks ", was first staged in a workshop by Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in 1949, and later turned into a 1953 Broadway production directed by Kazan with assistant by Anna Sokolow and starring Eli Wallach ( as Kilroy ), Frank Silvera ( as Gutman ), Joseph Anthony ( as Casanova ), Jo Van Fleet ( as Marguerite " Camille " Gautier ), Jennie Goldstein ( as the Gypsy ), Barbara Baxley ( as Esmeralda ), and David J. Stewart ( as the Baron ).

The studio, known as Trewyn Studio, was purchased by Barbara Hepworth in 1949, and is typical of the stone-built houses in St Ives.

His film career included various ruffians and villains — such as Bill Walker in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara ( 1941 ) and Long John Silver in Walt Disney's Treasure Island ( 1950 ), and the villanous Bill Sikes in David Lean's 1948 film version of Oliver Twist, and the acid bath murderer Dr. Clive Riordan in Obsession ( 1949 ).

( The other woman was Barbara Scofield Davidson, who defeated Connolly in the second round of the 1949 U. S. Championships, 6 – 4, 6 – 3.

* Barbara Corcoran ( born 1949 ), real estate mogul, entrepreneur, and investor on ABC's " Shark Tank "

* Barbara Notestein ( b. 1949 )-Wisconsin State Assemblywoman

Zuckmayer kept writing: Barbara Blomberg premiered in Konstanz in 1949 and Das kalte Licht in Hamburg in 1955.

Barbara Goodson ( born August 16, 1949 ; Brooklyn, New York ) is an American actress known mostly for her versatility in voicing original and dubbed cartoons.

Some other notable titles whose paperback rights were acquired by Puffin included The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett, the first children ’ s fiction title to depict a working-class home, which Puffin published in 1942, the Professor Branestawm books by Norman Hunter ( 1946 ), Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild ( 1949 ), Carbonel: The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh ( 1955 ), and The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier ( 1960 ).

* Peter D. Robinson ( b. 1949 ) ( Barbara )

The Junior Miss radio series, starring Barbara Whiting, was broadcast weekly on CBS in 1949.

The head of the department, Harry Adaskin, hired first Coulthard, and then ( in 1949 ) Barbara Pentland, to teach theory and composition.

* 1949: In I Shot Jesse James by Barbara Woodell